The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-11
ON 'CHANGE.

The Bluff City i~aszTance Company
declared a 8 per cent. dividend paya
BILE on demand.
MEMPHIS cotton receipts yesterday.
3515 bales; shipments, 4l68 bales
sales. 5000 balee.
The Planters' Fire and Marine In.
surance Company has declared a
per cent. dividend.
THE Memphis City Fire Insurance
Company paid a cash dividend of [
per cent q few days since.
TIE Bunk of Commerce, 1t Ia ru.
moIed, will increase its capital STOCK
from 100000 to $500, 1000.
AT Liverpool wheat was quiet, de.
mand fallen of, holders offer mode.
ra ely. Corn firm with a fair demand
AMOUNT Of -four in stors at eight
principal markets Of this country ia
equal to l 5 10000 bushels of wheat.
AT Charleston, 8. O., rice, good to
prime, on January 8, 1885, was quoted
at 4iS5tc, and on January s, 1887, 81
@4fc.
ST. LOWS cash corn is off fc, cash
wheat is up &c and cash oats up &c.
Cash pork is off 10, cash lard off sc
and clear ribs unchanged.
Ar Chicago yesterday cash pork was
up &c, cash lard off 7c and cash clear
ribs unchanged. CSsh corn was off
tc, cash wheat up fc and cash oats
up to.
RECEIPTS Of wheat at Liverpool for
the past three days, $4,000 bushels,
OF which 10000 bushels were Ameri-
can. The receipts Of corn were 49,
600 bushels.
TIE Phoenix Fire and Marine In
eurancs Company declared a divi-
dend OF 5 per cent. a few days since
out OF the net earnings for the past
six months.
The receipts OF wheat at the pri.
mary markets for the crop yea to
dats are reported at "a, $780, 900 bushels
against 90, Ill 900 bushels for the same
period In 1885 9.
TIE German Bank OF Memphis has
declared a cash dividend of II per
cent to be paid out OF the earnings of
the past six months, and has set aside
for contingent use the sum OF 5000.
A LOT Of shovel bill catfish, some
fifty ia number, were on exhibition
and for sale on Front street yesterday.
The shovel bill cat is good to eat, but
then there are 80 many other things
much batter.
GRAIN receipts at Baltimore: Wheat,
2o,500 bushels; corn, 23,C0O bushels;
oats, 5000 bushels; rye, 1000 bushels;
aour, 95S8 barrels. Shipments: Flour,
1857 barrels: wheat, $4,000 bushels;
corn, 1900 bushels.
VIsIroRs ON Change yesterday: N.
w. Alsuo, Attention, Tenn; Ashley
Stablis. Yorkshire, England; A. M.
Stewart, Toronto, Canada; q. III. Ha-
neer, Winona, Mics; R.M. boswell,
New Orleans; ]. Rand, Huntsville,
Ala.
THR Bank Of Commerce on the Sd
instant declared O dividend of 9 per
cent. out of the profit of the last six
month, aud on the 9Th instant the
Board OF Directors, with q view of in
creasing the capital stock from $780,
600 to 100000, declared a dividend OF
30 per cent, payable OF demand.
AT Chicago the visible supply on
January 10th, as compiled by the SEC
re:Ary OF the Chicago Board Of Trade,
is as follows: Wheat, SO, 486, 0C0
bushels; increase, 6l6,000. Corn, IT,
678, JOG increase, 1895, COG. Oats, A.
878, 1000 decrease, 147 900. Rye, 440,-
900; increase, 5000. Barley, 2,724,O 600;
decrease, $4,000.
LAST Saturday Memphis put its foot
on annual receipts of 100000 bales OF
cotton, and on yesterday the total re-
ceipts amounted to 604, 951 bales, an
increase Of 70,239 bales over the same
date OF lest year. Should the receipts
from this time to the close Of the sea-
o equal the receipts for the same
time last year, the receipts for 1885,
1887 will be rear 650,000 bales, or
more than 100000 bales over the re-
ceipts for l885-1886.
A DIsPAToH received yesterday from
Galveston says that "tbe MeHs tomor-
row will publish a communication
from the house OF Kaufman 4
Runge regarding the quantity of Texas
cotton left at interior railroad depots
and in the hands of producers, based
on their former estimate of 1850, 600
as the total output for Texas. They
furnish q statement showing that up
to the 1t instant 100000 bale OF
this crop has been received at Gal.
weston, New Orleans and st. Louis,
leaving $4,000 bales OF cotton visible
ald Invisible in Texas on the date
named, exclusive Of Galveston"
FLogR receipts at New York yester-
dap, 60,90z barrels and sacks; exports,
1898 barrels and 14,143 sacks; sales, |
1900 barrels. Wbeat-receipts, 75,-
900 bushels; exports, liz, 1914 bushels;
sales, SOLE, 900 bushels futures and
162, 1000 bushels spots. Corn-receipts,
81, 900 bushels; exports, 65,116 BUSH
els; sales, 400, coo Bushels futures and
$4,000 bushels spots. Oats-receipte,
"A, $50 bushels; expors 6, 2l2 bushels.
Stocts OF grain in store January Sth:
Wheat, 10,6l0,571 bushels; corn, s.
969, 300 bushels; oats, l,079,000 bush
els; barley, 276,409 bushels; rye. 49,
305 bushels.
TIE Mark Lane Express, in its British
grain trade during the past week, says:
Trade in English wheat has been in
active, but values have been main
tanned, owing to the supplies being
limited. The sales of English wheat
during the week were 30,84S quarters
at 36s, as against $1,000 quarters at 29S
during the corresponding week last
year. Flour is steady. Foreign wheats
nave rather slackened of under the
publication of the London stocks,
which show an excess over the gener-
oil estimate. Increased quantities
a1 Dat combined with continued ao-
cumulations in America, slso had
their influence on prices. Corn ia
rather cheaper. Barley Is steady, At
today's market wheats were quiet,
hour was ouiet and mats Wera I'd 10 Cd